My friend Jeff Goins recently wrote Why Writers Need to Read if They Want to Be Good, in which he explained how important it is for anyone who writes to spend time reading, because it helps your own writing. It keeps you from using bad grammar, spelling, and the like, much less from writing something boring.

It hit me between the eyes, because I haven’t visited galleries as much as I used to, or as much as I should.

No wonder I haven’t painted in a year. The inspiration and excitement ran out. The well has run dry. Empty.

Sure, I’ve been to an Untitled show a time or two, a couple of First Saturday Art Crawls, and The Frist occasionally. All under the excuse that the quality of art in Nashville is poor compared to big art cities like New York or Los Angeles, neither of which I have ever visited.

Very true - I find that I do need to keep my reading an viewing topped up. The other thing for me is being out in nature - it’s nothing to do with my writing or creative works and yet, when I’m stuck indoors too long I get… stuck - I need to re-connect, but even so; I think a bit of stuckness is great! I love the burst of creativity when it finally breaks out, and I’m learning to trust that mine always does, eventually. A recent erruption of mine brought forth this : Seven surefire steps to staying sick, scared and stuck - think you might like it :)
IanB ~